Conversed Quotes

#1. One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

Joseph Addison

#2. The two old secretaries conversed in the manner of hostile but toothless male dogs.

John Irving

#3. I have conversed with the spiritual Sun. I saw him on Primrose Hill

William Blake

#4. For a moment I forgot to resist as our mouths moved and our bodies conversed, exchanging secrets without sound.

Amy Harmon

#5. I have not, in general, much belief in the ability of woman as a creative artist. Unwritten lyrics, as [Ralph Waldo] Emerson said once when we conversed on this subject, should be her forte.

Fredrika Bremer

#6. Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#7. A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright,
Conversed as they sat on the green.
They gazed on each other with tender delight,
Alonzo the Brave was the name of the knight
The maiden's the Fair Imogene.

Matthew Gregory Lewis

#8. It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.

Edmond About

#9. Seated at table -
no need for the fracture
of the room's silence; noiselessly
they conversed.

R.S. Thomas

#10. I have seen a thousand times that Angels are human form, or men, for I have conversed with them as man to man, sometimes with one alone, sometimes with many in company.

Emanuel Swedenborg

#11. When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'.

Epictetus

#12. Great dislike to the Bible was shown by those who conversed with me about it, and several have remarked to me, at different times, that if it were not for that book, Catholics would never be led to renounce their own faith.

Maria Monk

#13. When I was in India I met and conversed briefly with Shri Atmananda Guru of Trivandrum, and the question he gave me to ponder was this: 'Where are you between two thoughts?

Joseph Campbell

#14. In a dream I saw Jesus and My God Pan sitting together in the heart of the forest. They laughed at each other's speech, with the brook that ran near them, and the laughter of Jesus was the merrier. And they conversed long.

Khalil Gibran

#15. Court an idea as long as you like, but be careful before marrying it.

Arturo Graf

#16. I don't really consider myself a model, to be honest. I respect designers; I think it's another art, you know.

Josephine De La Baume

#17. We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.

Lisa Murkowski

#18. Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

P. J. O'Rourke

#19. Knowledge is the heritage of man,but only the courageous inherit it.

Aivy Denisse Sto.Domingo

#20. The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.

Simone De Beauvoir

#21. My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.

Genie Francis

#22. That which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.

David Hume

#23. Never give up your right to be wrong, and be sure to give others that right too.

Tim Fargo

#24. Public order is a fragile thing, and if you don't fix the first broken window, soon all the windows will be broken.

James Q. Wilson

#25. Commitment to a plan or thought carries with it a force that can influence the unconscious mind and bring about the desired effect. In other words, once we decide to have something, the mind unconsciously begins to create the reality necessary to bring to pass what we desire.

Richard Paul Evans

#26. In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#27. Lies we tell ourselves are the ghosts that haunt the empty house of midnight.

Gregory David Roberts

#28. Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.

Steven Pinker

#29. We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.

John C. Calhoun